This paper investigates the decentralized control of LTI continuous-time plants using Generalized Sampled-data Hold Functions (GSHF). GSHFs can be used to modify the structure of the digraph of the resultant discrete plant, byremoving certain interconnections in the equivalent discrete-time model to form a hierarchical system model of the plant. This is a new application of discretization, and has as its motivation, the design of decentralized controllers using centralized methods.